When you go to the hospital for an emergency, the Emergency Department or Casualty is the place that helps you. They are open all the time, every day. The Emergency Department gives you surgical care right away for very bad conditions that you did not plan for. 

The 5 Main Steps of Emergency Care

1. Triage 

This is an important step. This is where a nurse looks at the symptoms and vital signs of patients to figure out who needs help first. The nurse will help people with problems like cardiac arrest first. People with problems might have to wait a bit. Triage is about making sure the people who are really sick get help from the nurse right away. The nurse does this by looking at each patient and deciding who needs the help, and that is what triage is all about.

2. Registration

Gathering patient history and obtaining consent for treatment is often done at the bedside for severe cases.

3. Medical Examination and Diagnosis

Doctors do exams and they order tests like blood work, X-rays and Medical Examination things such as CT scans or Medical Examination tests, like ECGs.

4. Treatment and stabilization 

It is about doing things to help manage the symptoms of an illness or injury. This can include giving the patient oxygen, fluids through a vein, or medicine. The Operating Theatre can be used for big operations. The doctors and nurses will do what they need to do to help the patient feel better in the operating theatre.

5. Disposition

This is the last stage where doctors analyze if the patient is now under a stable condition and can be shifted to the ICU or general ward.

Services provided in an Emergency Ward 

So you want to know what services are provided under emergency services in a hospital.

Emergency services in a hospital provide a lot of services.

The main functions include

•  treating people who're very sick or hurt

•  helping people who have had an accident

•  taking care of people who have a serious medical problem.

Other services

1. Giving people the medicine they need away

2. Doing tests to figure out what is wrong with someone

3. Calling in doctors to help with a particular problem.

The main goal of hospital emergency services in a hospital is to help people who need emergency services.

Emergency services in a hospital are available all the time to provide emergency services.

Primary Medical & Life-Saving Services

• Triage & Assessment

• Resuscitation

• Cardiac Emergency Care

• Trauma Services 

• Neurological Care

• Respiratory Support

We give them care all the time, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This includes taking care of their wounds, setting bones, and doing emergency surgery in special Trauma Services operating rooms that are just for Trauma Services.

Specialized Departmental Services

• Obstetric & Gynaecologic

• Paediatric Emergencies

• Psychiatric Evaluation

• Surgical Interventions

Essential Support Services

• Ambulance & Pre-Hospital Care

• Rapid Diagnostics

• Blood Bank

• Poison & Overdose Management

Staff who work in the emergency room of a hospital

Medical Professionals

• Emergency Physicians:

Emergency Physicians manage the care to keep the patient stable. They are like the bosses of the emergency team. Emergency Physicians have a lot of experience. 

• Doctors In Training: 

These are emergency doctors and nurses who want to become specialists, and junior doctors who are just starting out in their careers as doctors. They are also known as Registrars and Interns.

• Emergency Nurses: The backbone of the unit, including:

It is up to the emergency room nurses who decide who needs care first. The Triage Nurse does this to prioritize care for everyone.

Role of the nurse in the emergency room 

They manage the overall workflow. They make sure everything runs smoothly. The Charge Nurse has a lot of responsibility, like managing the nursing staff. They are also in charge of the overall workflow of the place.

• They oversee the nursing staff

• They manage the workflow

The Charge Nurse does an important job, and that is to manage the nursing staff and the overall workflow.

Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants are people who have a lot of training. They can figure out what is wrong with a patient and start giving them treatment. 

Specialized Support Staff

Paramedics are the people who help patients in ambulances. They make sure patients are okay before they get to the hospital. Paramedics do this before they hand the patients over to the Emergency Room staff. The Emergency Room staff then takes care of the patients. Paramedics play a role in helping patients before they get to the hospital.

Radiology Technicians are the people who do X-rays and other tests, like CT scans and ultrasounds, on patients. They do these tests there where the patients are. 

Other people working in the emergency room

• Social Workers & Psychiatrists

• Phlebotomists & Lab Assistants

• Administrative & Operational Staff

• Unit Clerks/Registration Staff

Orderlies and Transporters. They play a role in making sure Orderlies and Transporters get patients where they need to go.

Security Personnel: The Security Personnel have to make sure that the emergency room is a place for everyone. This is a job because the emergency room hospital can be a very stressful place. The Security Personnel have to keep an eye on things to make sure that the doctors, nurses, and patients are all safe. 

Green City Hospital- Providing Emergency 24x7

Green City Hospital not only saves lives but is often the first responder to any critical or emergency condition of a patient. We have a team of trained emergency doctors, nurses, and experts who work day in and day out to provide immediate health support to the patients.